I agree with the reviewer below. This fountain pen was perfect. No skipping,
feathering, leaking, or loose nib. It was a flawless fountain pen, if there ever
was one. I can't believe this pen is no longer being made. I hope they bring
this pen back soon. I'd be willing to pay up to $50 for this pen.

This is the pen that got me interested in using fountain pens again. After using
a fat body Waterman and cheapo Shaeffer years ago with medium nibs, I didn't
think much of fountain pens.

The thin body and fine Japanese nib were a revelation to me. I didn't know such
fountain pens existed.

I found the first on in the Maido store in San Francisco about a year ago and
immediately ordered two more from JetPens for my son and daughter.

However, all three of us have found that the pen doesn't travel well. The pen
doens't hold up will when being bounced around in backpacks across college
campuses or walking to work. All three have developed the same leak around the
nib.

I spent some time cleaning mine up and readjusting the nib, but the problem
returned in a couple of weeks.

Also, the cap doesn't sit firmly on the back of the pen, so has a tendency to
fall off when writing, especially the longer we used the pens.

So...love the pen as an introduction to what a Japanese fine nib fountain pen
can be, but I can't recommend it for the long haul, nor as a traveling pen.

This is the first fountain pen that I have owned and it sold me. This pen is
fantastic, I love writing with it and now I have 4. I like to keep one for each
of my favorite colors of ink, so that I can switch without having to swap
cartridges or converters. This pen is so nice that I now have a new hobby and
jet pens is the only place that I shop to feed that need. I love this site. At
first I couldn't believe that people actually wrote reviews for ink pens!

Now I get it and I'm doing it too.

This pen leaves a very nice clean line that dries quickly. I personally like
thin clean lines, even my pencils are 3mm for clean lines. This pen doesn't
scratch enough to damage the paper but it scratches enough to give me that
"fountain pen" feedback that makes writing with one feel cool.

Highly recommend this pen to anyone, and in fact I do all the time. I also
recommend jet pens too.

This was the first fountain pen I purchased, and I have had such great results,
I bought one for someone else as a gift (and she has had good results as well).
Recommended! In fact, I like it as much as my Lamy, though it will dry out more
quickly than the Lamy.

I LOVE this pen. It writes consistently, never gives me grief. (I always use it
with good paper and notebooks, though. On regular paper it blobs a bit). It is
slim and smooth. Thanks for the tip about converters, fellow-reviewer!

This has become my favorite pen to use with my DayTimer. The line does spread
ink in the DayTimer daily pages, but it seems to be the paper DayTimer uses
(cheap). The line is thin on DayTimer add-on sheets and in my Moleskine. The pen
keeps its nice classy looks. Since it's mini-sized it fits fine into my
moderately small DayTimer leather portfolio, which contains daily pocket pages
along with notebook split rings for add-on pages (no, DayTimer apparently
doesn't make it anymore, unfortunately.) Not bad at all for the money.

Wow this thing is tiny. For those of you looking for a pocket pen - this is
perfect. Because the pen casing is metal, there's a nice weight to it, even for
it's size. For those of you that are looking to use BOTTLE INK, there is a
CONVERTER. Just google: Sailor Ink Converter for Chalana. I bought mine from
SwisherPens.com for $7.50 + 5.25 shipping. These converters are also sold at
artbrown.com for $7.00 as I discovered later. WARNING - the converter is a
piston converter and holds a very SMALL amount of ink. You're going to feel like
a giant holding it but it fits the pen and provides an alternative to you bottle
ink lovers.